This composer commented that he wanted to use the title "Divertissement" for a concerto because he thinks that concertos are "written not ‘for' but ‘against' the piano." That piece's "Allegramente" movement features a "blues" theme and opens with a whip crack. This composer wrote a piano work that begins with the cellos and double basses playing the background for an unusual contrabassoon solo. He
This composer commented that he wanted to use the title "Divertissement" for a concerto because he thinks that concertos are "written not ‘for' but ‘against' the piano." That piece's "Allegramente" movement features a "blues" theme and opens with a whip crack. This composer wrote a piano work that begins with the cellos and double basses playing the background for an unusual contrabassoon solo. He uses a G-sharp arpeggio to depict ascending waves in the section " A Boat on the Ocean" of a piano work whose other parts include "The Valley of Bells" and "Night-Moths." This composer of Piano Concerto in G uses a recurring B-flat ostinato to represent tolling bells surrounding the corpse of a hanged man in a section called "Le Gibet." This composer of Miroirs was commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein to write a piano concerto for the left hand, and he depicted an evil dwarf in a section titled "Scarbo" designed to be more difficult than Islamey. FTP, name this composer of Gaspard de la nuit who also wrote a "Pavane for a dead princess."
This composer commented that he wanted to use the title "Divertissement" for a concerto because he thinks that concertos are "written not ‘for' but ‘against' the piano.
Maurice {Ravel}